Despite the orange tyrant toddler’s best efforts, Americans increasingly respect the professional civil servants who are trying to keep things together.
Next they’ll claim he is a paid protester. Paid by Antifa.
Every day at about lunchtime, a couple of the TV channels my wife watches have lengthy ads touting gold. Married to an economist, she is skeptical and asks questions. There are few uses for the stuff (crypto is even worse) and gold is in a bear market. It’s just speculation.
The Indonesians took my point and rescinded the embargo several months later. One has to allow sufficient time to save face and deny that it was to pressure from the Americans.
I highly recommend Soumaya and Chad’s new book. But be warned that trade policy can be intellectually addictive.
We’re still trying to reduce such barriers. Work to reduce, harmonize or limit “technical barriers to trade” or product standards comes to mind.
MAGA has a lot of trouble with the concept of cause and effect.
“Your body, your faith and your convictions are not negotiable,” said Hegseth. Unless you are female.
The Trumpies really don’t understand diplomacy, do they?
Don’t forget the EU’s Ode To Joy. Magnificent.
Already obsolete. Boeing stopped building 747s three years ago. No wonder Qatar dumped it.
Other countries pull similar blunders. I had to fly to Jakarta to tell the Indonesians that their new embargo on all imported aircraft was overkill. They wanted to protect local production of a small commuter aircraft and a small helicopter. 747s really weren’t the competition they feared.
